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I have read in some western sources that the modern day Anglo Saxon Identity is a fabrication of sorts. Granted, most of these were quite left on their political spectrum, but I recall there being a definitive "loss" then "regaining" of the idea of being Anglo-Saxon amongst the English, including those that settled the New World. The Normans were French speaking and French identifying, yet eventually the English would come to identify with the conquered, rather that the Norman conquerors. What also confuses and interests me then, is that despite this, they claim the history of England starting at 1066 with the Norman Conquests, and not the unification of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms nor the invasion of Britain by the Angles and Saxons.
How do you feel about this?
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